Improvement in clothes-sprinklers



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CLOTHES-SPRINKLER.

No. 186,741. Patented Jan. 30,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CHARLES F. W. MAAS AND WILLIAM SOHNELKE, OFMILWAUKEE, WIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-SPRINKLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,741, dated January30, 1877; application filed September 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES F. W. MAAS andWILLIAM SGHNELKE, both of the city of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes and Floor Sprinklers; and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention relates to'improvements in machines for sprinkling clothespreparatory to ironing them, and for laying the dust on floors, carpets,850.; the object of our invention being to convert water into a lightspray by forcing it rapidly through minute apertures, by which meansclothes may be more evenly and more perfectly moistened than by theordinary process of sprinkling, and the dust on floors may be dampenedwithout the accompanying danger of wetting them 'too much. The spraythus formed by our invention also serves an excellent purpose forcooling heated rooms.

The claim and drawings will further explain the nature of our invention.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a perspective and sectionalview of our inven-' tion.

A is a bulb made of rubber or other suitable material. B is a smallrubber hose-pipe,- used to convey water to the valve-chest O, and fromthence to the bulb A, where it is forced rapidly through the'smallapertures a:

w w in the funnel-shaped tube D, whereby the water is converted into aspray or vapor. There is also a funnel-shaped tube, E, at the lower endof the hose B, over the mouth of which is a sieve, 9, made of wire-clothor other suitable material, which prevents all sediments from beingdrawn up with the water. There are two valves, F and G, in thevalve-chest O, which open and close alternately, as follows: When thebulb A is compressed with the hand of the operator the valve F is closedand the valve G opened, and the air is forced out at D 5 when the bulbis allowed to expand thevalve G is closed, and the water rushes inthrough the hose B above the valve F and fills the vacuum thus formed,when the second compression of the bulb A forces the water out throughthe minute openings in the tube D, as before described.

We do not claim as our invention the bulb A, the hose B, or thevalve-chest O with the valves F and G, as we are aware that they are notnew.

We claim as our invention- A clothes-sprinkling apparatus, consisting ofthe tube B, having the funnel-shaped tube E on its end, protected bywire-gauze g, the valve-chamber (J, elastic -chamberor bulb A, and thefunnel-shaped tube or nozzle D, having minute openings 00, substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. W. MAAS.

. WILLIAM SOHNELKE.

Witnesses:

K. SHAWVAN, 0. R. IRWIN.

